Trouble with the in-laws

12:00AM BST 21 Apr 2001

TONY BOOTH, the Prime Minister's father-in-law, is showing no signs of going on-message. He was to be found savaging the Government only this week at a pensioners' forum in Gloucester: "Gordon Brown said in 1992 that there was no way he would introduce means-testing and the first thing he did was to introduce it. It's a disgrace. Our pensions are the lowest in Europe."